Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 11/10/2000 02:44:06
On Apr 1,  2:09am, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
} On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:40:35AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
} 
}  >      Is there any chance of getting this integrated into the base
}  > system at some point.  Having PAM in pkgsrc is a good start; but, if
}  > none of the base system programs that need to do authentication use it,
}  > then it isn't very useful.
} 
} Another scheme is being worked on for NetBSD, actually.

     Can you supply any details on it, and why it is being used instead
of PAM?  Any particular reason PAM isn't being used now that it has
become a pseudo standard (it is available in HP-UX, Linux, Solaris,
others???)?

}-- End of excerpt from Jason R Thorpe